2017 – Page 68

The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) has ratified the call for a public hospital physician general strike for 48 hours across the whole country beginning Wednesday, 11 October 2017 and carrying on through Thursday, 12 October. The strike will affect public hospitals that will only be offering emergency service and attending critical patients during the work …

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National District City Hall reports collecting over 7,000 tons of garbage over the past weekend of 7-8 October 2017. The garbage collection service had suffered due to management problems at the Duquesa garbage dump. A press release from the city government said that more than 3,000 city hall employees participated along with 250 neighborhood groups …

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The Teleférico de Puerto Plata, one of the main attractions for national and international tourists, was closed for 20 days, after the ending of the Discover Puerto Plata event in Puerto Plata last week. The director general of the skylift, Rafael Núñez said the Teleférico has closed to public usage from 9-28 October to give …

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The Ministry of the Environment announced the seizing several items made with tortoise shell (Eretmochelys imbricata) in different parts of the country. In a press release, the Ministry states that the confiscations were carried out in order to discourage the illegal sales of articles made from marine animals in danger of extinction. The operations were …

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The Ministry of Education says educators will have to openly compete to be chosen to direct public schools districts. The 18 regional directors of the 105 school districts located nationwide had previously been handpicked, with politician and union members influence making the difference in the appointments. The new mechanism to be implemented by the Ministry …

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The comedy, Atrácame Mas, by Cuban humorist Alexis Valdes is showing at the Palacio de Bellas Artes on the weekend of 12-15 October 2017 at 8:30pm, Sunday at 6:30pm. Starring Irving Alberto and Luis José Germán, it is the tale of a burglar who enters to rob in the home of a successful yet arrogant …

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Watch the Dominican women’s national volleyball team, ranked consistently in the top 10 of the world, go for a slot in the World Championships. The Norceca Continental Championship Group A will be played in Santo Domingo from 13-15 October 2017. The event is a qualifier that offers two tickets to the FIVB Women’s World Championship …

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26-year old Dominican Rainier Mallol has invented a medical epidemiological device with artificial intelligence (AIME) that predicts where the next outbreaks of dengue, zika and chikungunya are most likely to occur. The invention turned Mallol into one of 35 winners of Innovators under 35 in Latin America 2017 of the MIT Technology Review in Spanish. …

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The spokesman for the La Vega bishop office, Reverend Fausto García, confirmed reports that the Holy See had defrocked Constanza priest Juan Manuel Mota de Jesus (Padre Johnny) after an ecclesiastical court in The Vatican determined the veracity of claims of rape of at least 15 women when he was priest in Constanza. The claims …

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How a close relative of a major drug trafficker, who had been serving a sentence to murder for 30 years, was able to maneuver through the local judiciary, jail and medical systems reveals the vulnerability of these institutions, highlights Listin Diario in a report on 8 October 2017. Pedro Alejandro Castillo Paniagua (Quirinito) secured forged …

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